IRCTC SBI Platinum Card: Train ticket booking for free! Learn 10 great benefits of SBI-IRCTC card
IRCTC SBI Platinum Card, SBI Credit Card: SBI and IRCTC have jointly launched a credit card. With this card you can also book train tickets for free.
State Bank of India and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) have launched a new facility together. SBI and IRCTC have jointly launched a credit card. With this card you can also book train tickets for free. The name of this card launched on the RuPay platform is ‘IRCTC SBI Platinum Card’. There are many benefits of this card. According to the railway, this card will be a great means of saving money for passengers.
What will be the benefit?
1. According to IRCTC, shopping on this card will give a bumper discount. After activating this card, you will get 350 reward points, which can be used to book free tickets on the IRCTC website.
2. Customers will get 10% value back for booking tickets in AC-1, AC-2, AC-3 and AC-CC categories. These values will be found in the back reward points. Apart from this, a discount of 1 percent will also be available on fare on ticket booking.
3. The value of 1 reward point on IRCTC SBI Platinum Card will be equal to 1 rupee.
4. You will be able to use this card to pay for shopping, hotel bills and travel during travel. You will get a reward point on payment of 125 rupees in whatever goods you buy with this item except non-fuel purchasing. That is, you will get a reward point of 1 rupee on your purchase of 125 rupees.
5. Reward Points earned from ticket booking or shopping can be cashed while booking tickets from IRCTC website. If your reward point is equal to your ticket charge, then you can book your ticket for free.
6. Passengers traveling by booking tickets through this card will get a concession on the transaction charge. That is, they will get a rebate of up to 1.8 percent on the transaction charge incurred while booking tickets.
7. Using this card, you can also buy fuel i.e. petrol-diesel. Fuel surcharge will not be levied on purchasing petrol and diesel from this card.
8. Customers using this card as a personal insurance protection will get complimentary accident insurance cover. According to this, if the passenger’s train dies in an accident, then his family will get an insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh.
9. With this card, you can get a great discount in shopping on different platforms. For example, shopping on BigBasket and Ajio etc. or shopping on medicines on Medlife, customers will get good discounts.
10. Through this card, you can get up to 50 percent discount on ordering food in the train from ‘Rail Recipe’.
